@SeniorSzn Our notification period runs through March 15th. Decisions will be rolling until that date.
Fingers crossed for this week - my money is on Thursday or Friday 
@UWadmissionstaff When is the first wave of decisions planned? Is it this Friday 3/8?
Hello, @JamalWiggers is not a staff member in the UW Office of Admissions. They have no insight about notification process. Please take any information given by various users on this thread with a grain of salt as it is not official communication from our office. Applicants are welcome to contact our office directly.
@UWadmissionstaff You guys are awesome to continue monitoring these feeds and calling out the folks that are there just for gas lighting purposes. Thank you for caring, it’s a classy move.
Does anyone know the average academic demographic of the purple and gold award? I’m a CA student and UW is one of my top choices and I’d only be able to afford it if I received a solid $8k+ a year
There used to be more information about the Purple and Gold Scholarship on their website but I can’t find it anymore. Maybe they are keeping the parameters more fluid so they don’t want to publish anything specific. Good luck on acceptance and getting a scholarship. I’m hoping for both too!
This is the official info that I found. https://admit.washington.edu/costs/scholarships/ Not much but good luck!
will the portal be updated on the day an acceptance letter will be sent out or on the day it is expected to arrive? i’m wondering because if i were to just wait for the mail and continue checking my email, would the portal be updated earlier than if i were to just wait for the mail?
the actual packages in the mail come after decisions are released online, so don’t expect to get mail the day you receive an acceptance. Also, especially since it’s widely speculated that UW will only send you an email if it’s a rejection or waitlist, I’d recommend keeping up with this thread as well as checking your portal rather than relying on email @dawglover
This constant check of my portal and this thread is driving me nuts rn. So I’m just gonna come back to this chat on Friday and not gonna check my portal till Friday lol ?
REGARDING WHEN REGULAR DECISIONS WILL BE RELEASED
@UWadmissionstaff feel free to correct or dispute any of this information.
What We Know About Decision Releases:
- [li] There is no particular order to who is notified when[/li][Link to Source](http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21242229#Comment_21242229)
[li] MyUW will be updated in batches as the waves of decisions are loaded. The system only allows a set number of updates per day so UW cannot notify everyone at once[/li][Link to Source](http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21242229#Comment_21242229)
[li] UW advertises the range of March 1-15 because they are never quite sure when they will have final selection finished. UW does not make all of the decisions and then hold them until a random date. Rather, they work up until they are finished and then release them[/li][Link to Source](http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21250362#Comment_21250362)
What We Know From Last Year:
- [li] Monday, March 5th, 2018: UWadmissionstaff said “notifications will start rolling out soon”[/li][Link to Source](http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21262539#Comment_21262539)
[li] Friday, March 9th, 2018: UWadmissionstaff says most decisions will be posted on MyUW by the end of the week, Sunday, March 11th[/li][Link to Source](http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21274997#Comment_21274997)
[li] Friday, March 9th, 2018 - 11:30pm ET: Decisions are released for many applicants but not all. Remember they release in waves until the 15th[/li][Link to Source](http://talk.qa.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/21277664/#Comment_21277664)
** Speculation: These are two other events occurring on March 8th **
- [li] The UW college of education is releasing admission decisions for nearly all programs on March 8th. Reminder this is not the same as undergraduate admissions and is most likely a different team/staff.[/li][Link to Source](https://education.uw.edu/admissions/deadlines)
[li] The UW Board of Regents have upcoming scheduled meetings for March 13th and March 14th. The schedules and agendas for these meetings will be posted on March 8th[/li][Link to Source](https://www.washington.edu/regents/)
When I tried to log in for S to MYUWID there is nothing about his application status. It had me set up an email address @uw.edu and u.washington.edu.
Has anyone else had this problem? Tried calling admissions but busy signal.
@birdie0518 I checked but mine’s all good. Hope you figure it out!
just spoke with admissions. Evidently it’s a technical error.
Do people get deferred from UW?
Also, I got an email from UW saying that they had over 45000 freshman applications this year. Does that mean their acceptance rate is only 10% bc on their website it says they admit close to 4500 students.
@neurochic No they do not defer with what I’m aware of. Also, admissions percentage takes into account the number of students they have to yield to fill 4500 spots. If they only admitted 4500 would they all attend? No- exactly. That’s why the acceptance rate for UW is in the 40-45% range because they need to make sure they can completely fill 4500 spots. (Given their reluctance for OOS aid, this eliminates a very large percentage of OOS applicants who get in)
Another deterent is whether you get admitted as pre-major, direct-to-major, or direct-to-college. When comparing options if you don’t get to the major or college of your choice, that could be a big deciding factor.
Here is the explanation for the different departments/majors:
https://admit.washington.edu/apply/admission-to-majors/
I am so nervous and can’t stop thinking about decisions! Hoping for Friday I guess